3.—(1) Notwithstanding the commencement of section 144(2) and schedule 5 of the Act, so far as relating to the repeal of section 6 of the 1892 Act (management of allotments), section 6(3) and (4) of the 1892 Act continue to have effect in relation to each local authority—
(a)in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph (2); and
(b)for the purposes mentioned in paragraph (3).
(2) The circumstances mentioned in this paragraph are where, before the day on which the first regulations made by the local authority in question under regulation 115(1) of the Act come into force, that local authority has, in accordance with section 6(3) of the 1892 Act, appointed and not removed from office allotment managers.
(3) The purposes mentioned in this paragraph are—
(a)the continuation in force of section 6(3) of the 1892 Act in relation to the continuing appointment of, and power to remove from office, allotment managers; and
(b)the continuation in force of section 6(4) of the 1892 Act in relation to allotment managers mentioned in paragraph (2), until such time as all such allotment managers appointed by the local authority in question have been removed from office.